MOAB " A Total Eclipse of the Heart"

Over the weekend, Kyle and I got to go to Moab with our friends and we had a blast! We got there Friday afternoon and started setting up our infamous tent cot (Kyle's birthday gift that he had to have.) After we got settled, we loaded up Ryan's truck and headed to Dead Horse Point. It was awesome. It is so pretty there. After admiring the sites and taking a few hundred pictures, we started making dinner. We BBQ hamburgers and hot dogs and had baked beans. Baked beans+ Kyle+ small enclosed space and no ventilation= an angry and nauseated wife. After eating dinner we headed back to camp and sat around the camp fire and roasted marshmallows. The next morning we woke up bright and early and started making a delicious breakfast which was yummy breakfast burritos....mmmm good! once we stuffed our faces we packed our back packs and headed off to the arches. I was really excited for the hike mostly because this was Kyles first time coming to moab and I wanted him to experience it and see what it had to offer. What a better way than for him to see breath taking arches. So we hiked devils garden which was really neat but I think Delicate arch is by far the best arch there. By the time we were done hiking, we were starving, hot, sweaty, and our fingers were the size of sausages. To solve the starving situation we made hoggie sandwiches when we got back to the car and ate them. We headed back to camp and decided we needed to cool off and rinse the sand and sweat off of us so we all jumped into the river. Ok we didn't exactly "jump" in the river. It was far too cold to just jump in and take a delightful swim. We had to ease our way into the river, and once we were in we immediately would jump out. Somehow, though, the boys decided they needed a challenge and challenged each other to see who could stay in the river the longest with the freezing water up to there necks. To make a long story short, Kyle was the last one to get out after being in there for forty minutes and when he came out his lips were blue and that is no lie. Me being the concerned wife that I am, I yelled at him and said he was going to get pneumonia. I am happy to report, he doesn't even have the sniffles, but I was really concerned that he would for sure suffer from hypothermia and pneumonia. To help the boys unthaw, we went back to camp, started a fire, prepared dinner and enjoyed the rest of the night hanging out at camp, eating, shivering, playing games, and listening to our neighbors blast there music. The next day we got up and started packing up our things so that we could make the trek home. We had an awesome time and I can't wait for next year's Moab trip.

Here are some highlights of the trip:

1. Downloading the London Broadway Lion King song.

2. 3 of the 6 banana nut muffins getting devoured by a dog that didn't belong to us.

3. Blasting "A Total Eclipse of the Heart"

4. "Close you eyes"

5. "Who sings this song?......ME of course!"

6. The outhouses

7. Last but not least, not having to study for a flippin anatomy test!

Landscape Arch- the beginning of our hike

After our hike. If you look closely, we are sweating!

Dead Horse Point..... love these girls!

The Window

My adorable hubby!